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To start the year ......

We continue our second week without a car and so we use the stop to get around.

First step Bruny Island, where we find a car that we stroll around the island: cheese factory, picnic at the beach, shop for "fudge" the Australian tourists eventually we will file before the only shop on the island so that we do qques trips for days to come. Thank again for this nice family shared the day.

We find a place in a campsite on the island and we decided to spend the first days of the new year in this very nice island. We spent our 31 head in the stars while enjoying a magnificent fireworks display produced by natural girls star on a background galaxy. The while "enjoying" a bottle of sparkling wine (and yes, it is far from the Champagne ...) on the large white sand beach completely deserted.

After ballads on the crests of the cliffs of Bruny Island, we decide for the rest to visit another island a bit further east: Maria Island .

We parrait difficult to reach the island in a day's stop, so we expect to put the tent closest to our goal. Well, it was nothing of the kind of people who have never enough time to put our bag on the ground to continue our journey. We therefore arrive at the pier before the night is falling!

A small detour to the tourist office tells us there are only 2 crossings day to make the crossing to the island. We set the tent beside a small lake and handle the alarm for 7am (ouch!). Awakened by a bird singing siren cop, we decamp quickly.

We are the first present on the pier, unfortunately, bataeu contains very little space and we have not had the presence of mind to book.

While frustrated, we await the next boat in the middle of the day enjoying the island far our favorite.

captain then comes to us and made a very tempting proposition: for the same price the crossing, he proposes to come to his boat for an "eco tour" starting in 2H and they drop us off at the end of the tour on the island.

It will not tell us twice and we embark on 3H navigation to see a colony of wild seals and Maria Island in all its seams (cliffs, caves, underwater ...). Simply amazing! Thank you master!

The island is totally wild (it's a natural by itself), there are no more people and the only means of transportation, the noblest, is walking ...

we get our garbage plastic bag (which we must bring about continent) and begin our walk in 4H blazing sun to reach one of three wild camping on the island.

The frame is really spectacular, we admire the "Painted Cliff " kind of rock formations of different colors that are strangely reminiscent of the wood.

Halfway, we arrive at " French farm," where we learn that once a family of French farmers had taken up residence in this place for 9 years. Incredible, especially as their nearest neighbor was walking 2H!

We arrive late in the day in our wilderness camping on the banks of the turquoise water, or just trying is present. The
lendemin we retrace way to spend the night near the pier, we do not want to miss the first boat because we have to ship the same day for our flight back to Melbourne.

And here ..... throughout the journey we meet constantly pademelons (small kangaroo), Walabi (average kangaroo) and Kangou road as well as Wombats (detecting our presence very late thanks to the wind direction) and of Echnidés (sort of Herrera).

is a true festival !!!!!

During our trip, we have already crossed qques Animals, but certainly not all in one place!! It is with great pleasure that we travel to our new 15km. It's really funny

kangouroux because we are all curious and they are watching the corner of my eye, sometimes even daring to pose for a picture ...
All these animals are really quiet in the island because they have no predators (predator as "voracious" on the continent since the car!).



We returned the next day Hobart to catch our flight, which cregnait me that time is a fair bit, we come with 3H's airport in advance! The stop in Tasmania is really effective!


For those who want a more complete preview of our trip, you can click on the link below: Photo second week.

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Christmas Tasmania History Tasmania

After only two weeks of training, here I am on vacation (paid for two tomorrow and more ...).

We fly to Tasmania, an island off the coast of Melbourne. It only takes a short hour flight by plane and arrive the same morning Hobart, the capital. We decide to rent a car, but due to budget, we have the car for a week, we will advise in stop thereafter.

soon as the car in hand, we decide to begin a tour of Tasmania up the coast from the east. At first, Baptiste is not very comfortable with driving on the left and I will be small frights throughout the journey.

We are immediately surprised by the difference in landscape is changing very rapidly km km. First, we are immersed in a kind of African savannah where we would not have been surprised see a giraffe in the distance. Animals that unfortunately we see at the moment, lying on the roadside. It is really impressive and we understand the importance of traffic signs that require drivers to drive at dusk not until the early morning (there are even some areas where it is forbidden to drive at night).

The landscape is really wild and we can very n'appercevons Housing (recess with 6 inhabitants per km2, it is almost like in Estonia!). Then we Longoni the coast and it is impossible not to stop to admire the scenery.

For our first night, we set the tent in the Freycinet National Park . we will find that national parks are very numerous (they cover one third of the territory and 5 of them are part of a World Heritage area by UNESCO). We have to pay us a pass permetra thereafter to walk around and put the tent in all the parks of the island. Indeed, each park is provided free campsites for hikers and nature lovers, some are only accesible after 3 days of walking. Holidays ahead really well ...

We start our first ride on Wine Glass Bay and qques after hours walking we arrive on a white sandy beach inhabited by qques pademelons (kind of small kangaroos) who show their noses without being too scared. This is our first encounter with wildlife on the island who never cease to amaze us in the future.

The animals are wild in Tasmania, we have always seen in their natural place, but they are not very fierce and the region must make awareness campaign so that tourists do not feed the animals so they can remain wild.

We arrive in the Bay of Fire for Christmas, and I can tell you that nothing be the bottom is a real gift. The menu's Eve, a small lobster tasted the orange stones (due to lichens) in front of a turquoise sea .... A real treat! A thud
me waking during the night, Santa Claus?? And no, a kangaroo !!!!!

For my birthday, we came out the bottle of Bordeaux jealously guarded by Baptist acompagnée cheese from the corner (and yes, to my delight, Tasmania is also known for its cheese) at the edge a very refreshing waterfall.

following days are pure wonders and discoveries of Tasmanian nature. This region is truly amazing and we do not come across so many tourists that we are often alone on the roads and campsites receive very little tents. We go on walks to walks on the feet and swallow km cars in breathtaking landscapes.

We begin our tour of Tasmania from the East Coast p uis we plunge into the country where many lakes are a paradise for fishermen warned. We travel sometimes dozens and dozens of miles without encountering any village or any structure whatsoever. Fortunately panels tell us where to tank (meal bonus and fuel) because during the next 90 miles, there will be no store or gas station. It is true that we must not fail, given the innexistence telephone network and the little passage ...

The island is not very big, we réussisons to go around in a week (with 1600 km on the clock, anyway). The West Coast is even more wild, so wild that there are only two villages on the coast with access to the Indian Ocean, the rest of the coast is totally grayed out (unless you have a 4x4). We preview, at our expense, that the roads open only 4x4 are marked on our map of a big white line. Some villages are all served by only those roads or we thought we could go ....

We arrive at Hobart on the following Saturday to make the car and we plan to spend the next week in Bruny Island and Maria Island . But that's another story ....


For those who want a glimpse of our more complete picture, you can click on the link below: 1st week Tassie

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During our trip to Tasmania, we had several questions about the aborigines. They were present in the island? What is their history?

Unfortunately, we had no information in any form. Auncun prospectus to the tourist, no sign throughout the travel auncun memorial. During our second week we have yet trampled beach bearing the name of the last Tasmanian Aboriginal. There avit so many aborigines in the island.

qques After research we discovered to our dismay the story tragedy of the Aborigines of Tasmania. This people has been completely destroyed, there is no more and I Desender parrait more amazing to not cross BC oir a memorial in their name during our trip. This nation has not only been exterminated, but it is also totally absent from the collective memory!

I parrait important for those who are interrested to trace the history of the Aborigines (with the information that we may have found).

So aboriènes were present, according to historians, they have crossed a former land bridge that connected Tasmania to the mainland Australian since at least 35000 years . Over time, the gradual rise in sea level submerging the land bridge and the Tasmanian and Australian Ab origenes black Tasmania expérimenteron t over 10000 years of solitude and physical isolation the rest of the world (the longest period of isolation of human history).

Aborigines have no writing system, it is impossible to imagine their history, their name and Leut earth. All what we know of them is that they were hunter-gatherers with very basic technology. The Tasmanians were making some simple models of tools in stone or wood. They missed their agriculture, livestock, pottery, and bows and arrows. N ou know the history of Tasmania from 1642, when the Dutchman Abel Janssen Tasman discovered the island.

In 1772 a French expedition led by comfortable Nicholas Marion du Fresne landed four on the island. Within hours, these sailors fired on thousands of Aborigines.

In 1777, the British landed on the island. He servèrent of the island as a place of exile for prisoners british from 1803.

A visibly ineffective criminal justice system allowed such convicts to escape in the heart of Tasmania, where they gave the full measure of their brutality against black occupants of the island. If one believes the sociologist historian Clive Turnbull, the activities of these crimes inclurent soon shooting, fracassage skulls, burning alive, and slaughter Aborigines to feed the dogs.

Then, Brita nniques began to kill, capture and enslave the Black people of Tasmania in any impuité.

" The Black War of Van Diemen's Land " was the name of the official campaign of terror directed against blacks Ta sman. In 30 years (from 1803 to 1833), the number of Aborigines going over 5000 to less than 300 . Forty-three years later, the entire indigenous population was wiped out, exterminated by British colonists, alcohol and syphilis.

After the Black War, the remaining Aborigines were grouped and herded into concentration camps. In 1830, George Augustus Robinson, a Christian missionary, was sent to remove the remaining Tasmanian Blacks and take them to Flinders Island, 50 miles away. Many of the captives died in Robinson Road.

With the sharp decline in the number of Aborigines, whites began to adopt a curious interest for blacks than whites believed Be the''missing link between humans and great apes. " In 1859 Charles Darwin's book, "The Origin of Species, popularized the fantasy of biological evolution (and therefore social), with the White s at the top of the ladder of evolution and all blacks bottom. Aborigines were described as''a group of people sentenced to die under the law of natural selection, such as dinosaurs.''

On 7 May 1876 Truganini , the last Tasmanian woman Black, died at the age of seventy-three years. His mother was stabbed to death by a European. Her sister was kidnapped by Europeans. Her husband was drowned in his presence, while his murderers raped her.

After his burial, the body was exhumed Truganini, and her skeleton, strung up and put in a box, became for many years the most popular exhibition of the Museum of Tasmania and remained in the displays until 1947.
In 1976 (the centenary of the death of Truganini) despite the protests of the Museum, his skeleton was finally cremated and his ashes scattered at sea

Thus perished a whole people!

According to excerpts from the artcicle Black War, The Destruction of Tasmanian Aborigines, by Professor Runoko Rashidi ~ http://www.cwo.com/ Lucumi / tasmania. html .